Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-05-20
A Little Bundle.

Oh for stroke of something to awaken
our agricultural people from their lethargy.
Our Country Home.
Narrowing with the old-style harrows
has long been the weak link in the chain
of tillage operations.-Dr. T. II. Hoskins
Individual merit should be the thing
borne in mind when purchasing an ami
NAL. Get pedigree if you can, but above
all get individual merit.
Dead or decaying fruit trees should be
removed at once from your fields and
orchards. and burnt up without delay.
MANY injurious insects will thereby be de
stroyed.
Fowls do not 90 high up to roost from
the love of elevation, and where they are
protected by walls and doors they will be
as comfortable, and much safer, low
down.
A good way to teach hens the habit of
egg eating is to throw shells about where
they can get them. The best way to cure
them of the habit is to put them under a
pot lid.
can't think of any work on the farm
that pays better than little more harrow
ing after the ground seems to be in fair
condition for sowing or planting OR.
Philadelphia Press.
1t is frequently good plan TO go over
the ground with a smoothing harrow just
before the corn comes up. 1t should not
be narrowed after the corn is up until it is
large enough to follow the rows well.
The old problem that the best is always
the cheapest is especially true of poultry
culture, and the beginner should be care
full to take notice of this fact and govern
himself accordingly.
AS apple and pear orchards will last
lifetime, we cannot be too careful as to
the kinds we select. To find when they
come into bearing that we have worthless
varieties, is heavy and irreparable loss
N. E. Farmer.
About every farm house there should be
a nice lawn. The farmer has the oppor
tunity to excel in this sort of ornamental
ton. He has plenty of land and can usu-
ally shape his lawn to degree of perfec-
ton that cannot be attained in our towns.
The great mistake, says Mr.. A. w.
Cheever. that most of us make in feeding
young animals is in giving too much at a
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the feelings. "A little and often" should
be the rule to observe in feeding calves,
pigs and chickens.
Economy in production must be OBJ
served in all departments of industry, and
is practiced wherever success is attained
We must grow fewer weeds in our fields,
fewer bushes in our pastures. and more
grass in our meadows. We must not pay
interest and taxes on so much uEproduc-
tive farm land
Some men can get their living any
where. If you set them down on bare
rock they will thrive there. The true
farmer is to those who come after him and
take the benefit of his improvements like
the licben which plants itself on the bare
rock and grows. and thrives and cracks
it, making mould for garden vegetables
which are to grow in it in after years.
Ihoreau.
Purity of breed, so-called, of course,
supplies particular inbred characteristics
to progeny; but it is certain that vigor
and mascularity have resulted from exer-
else, as necessary in cattle as in horses,
and 1t is equally certain that cattle of large
size can be maintained or increased in fer
tility and vigor by exercise, as is done in
the smaller breeds; and fertility is now
being in this way increased in many
Short-horn bulls in the West.-The Has
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